A fair portion of the right-wing, especially the libertarian conspiracy faction, has flocked to Maduro’s defense with a whole galaxy of conspiracy claims and assumptions. In essence, we see the right, the ascendant faction at that, supporting an avowed socialist. They are doing so with moth eaten, recycled Cold War propaganda that is indistinguishable from that of the far left and of outright communists. This doesn’t seem to occur to any of them. As with their hero Putin’s KGB background, they are utterly oblivious to it.

This level of delusion and cognitive dissonance cannot persist forever. There is already a “civil war” among the various incompatible ideologies and claims on the right, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet.